You mean 2 decades later. Arcade Fire AND Feist’s first album both turn 20 next year. Not to mention Feist was well known as a member of Broken Social Scene back in the late 90s.

Funeral was revelatory for its time but everything since has been exponentially diminished returns. I last saw them on the tour for whatever album was before WE (when they were doing shows in the round) and it was actually kind of stunning to hear Funeral/Neon Bible tracks put directly up against the new stuff. They…

I am already completely sick to death of these random product/company origin stories and I feel like the trend is just beginning. It’s the mid-2000s biopic boom all over again. Does anyone really care about the origins of Tetris, or Blackberry, or fucking Chippendales? Basically all of these stories are just Wikipedia…

It’s also important to consider the context surrounding Garden State’s release. The whole sadboi, twee, coming-of-age indie dramedy subgenre was at its absolute apex in the mid-to-late 2000s. We also had Eternal Sunshine (still the only great movie from this era IMO), Elizabethtown, Igby Goes Down (from 2002 but I’m…

The whole reason he’s getting a lot of attention now is because he DID fail already. Without looking it up, name one thing Braff was involved with between Garden State and this movie. And the Verizon commercials don’t count. The dude spent almost two decades failing to get anything off the ground after GS. Do you not…

Case in point: basically no one cares about the 9 albums they released before the Buckingham/Nicks era. The highest charting of those, 1974's Heroes Are Hard to Find, peaked at #34 on the Billboard 200. In reality, the vast majority of their output is neither great nor a hit.

The Drafthouse has been doing the “rowdy” screenings since at least Magic Mike XXL in 2015, 4 years before Cats. When I saw MMXXL there, my ticket was advertised as a “Hootin’ & Hollerin’” screening which I’m assuming is the same thing. This was a few weeks into its run during a random matinee screening so there was…

Edit: I’m very dumb. TIL that “Deirdre” is actually what the name is supposed to be, and not just people mispronouncing “Deidre.” The only person I’ve ever know with either variation was a “Deidre” so I always thought people were just pronouncing it wrong. 

I used to be a teacher and I know dozens upon dozens of teachers with visible tattoos and piercings. Plus I know countless other professionals with them too. It’s 2023, man; the only people who are about tats/piercings/colored hair are boomers who also criticize people for chewing gum and wearing hats inside.

I’m a lifelong Chiefs fan and love Kelce, but this episode was one of the weaker of the season IMO. He did well enough but there was also very little asked of him for most of the night. As usual, the prerecorded stuff absolutely wiped the floor with the live stuff the point where I’m starting to wonder why they…

Huh? Kelce has never been arrested for weed. He was suspended for a year at Miami for failing a drug test, but he’s never been arrested from what I can see/remember.

I was thinking this HAD to be inaccurate, or some Hollywood accounting voodoo, given that they had a HP film and the James Gunn Scooby-Doo adaptation in 2002.

I’m not really even sure if there are a higher percentage of shows getting cancelled than there were in the pre-streaming days. We just have, like, 100x more TV content than we did even 15-20 years ago, so it probably just seems worse based on volume alone. At least shows now usually get to finish out full seasons, a…

Most cable networks have taken the completely wrong message from the rise of streaming. They saw people “binge watching” and decided to replicate that experience by just re-running whatever the most popular show they have the rights to is for hours upon hours at a time.

There is an absolutely zero chance that Kubrick’s Napoleon would’ve clocked in at only 2 hours. The manuscript may have only been 148 pages (which would usually come out to about 2 1/2 hours) but he wanted this to be an Old Hollywood-style epic which means a minimum of 3 hours. One of his main inspirations, the 1927…

Woody is from an in-universe TV show called “Woody’s Roundup” which I’m assuming is a take on Howdy Doody or Hee-Haw. Incidentally, that would be way more fun than this dour, overly-serious nonsense.

Uh.... there was one for the 3DS released 12 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Network:_Punch_Time_Explosion

Elmo and Sheldon aren’t owned by WBD. They only have the broadcast/streaming rights to Sesame Street (I believe CTW still owns all the IP) and Big Bang is all ViacomCBS AFAIK. I know the show is syndicated on Turner networks but they don’t actually own the rights to any of the characters.

Is there a name for this trend of films/shows that follow the generic biopic template but are about the invention of some random thing rather than one person’s life? Because, holy crap, I’m so tired of these already. I just simply can’t force myself to care how fucking Tetris or Chippendales or Air Jordans or The…

Have you seen the trailer? It REALLY plays up the whole “unproven rookie” angle, to where like 50% of the lines of dialogue in the trailer refer to it. I can understand someone who’s not familiar with MJ’s history as a player thinking he was unknown at the time.